"Each of these attacks were carried out with the goal to spread fear and distrust and turn members of a community against each other...The only sustainable way to fight back is to create a world where everyone feels cared for and loved." Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook
March 30, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
No matter how hard he tries, Communists and the Ayatollah just don't like him.
And he'll do anything to win them over. He'll talk trash about the United States. He'll listen silently while they talk trash about the United States.
And still the Castro brothers and Ayatollah Khomeini don't like him.
Nothing seems to work for him. No matter how hard he tries, he can't get "No Respect" from our enemies.
He's tried "Consistent," praising Muslims daily right from the first days of his presidency. You'd think the Ayatollah of Iran would like that. But he didn't.
In fact, during negotiations of the Iran Deal, Khomeini joined in with a crowd of Iranians shouting "Death to America!"
That's cold.
He's tried "Reasonable." Didn't he let Iran keep four U.S. hostages to avoid upsetting Kerry's Iran Deal negotiations? But that didn't work either.
And he's tried "Generous," throwing money at the problem, $150 billion in Iran's case. That usually works when nothing else does. But not this time.
The Beatles, Obama and Facebook Guru, Zuckerberg, think all you need is love. But is it really enough?
Obama has been around the world, loving his little heart out, last week in Cuba and Argentina, but ISIL is still blowing away people, this time on Easter and in Brussels, all during Obama's latest apology tour. Mea culpa doesn't seem to cut it with ISIL or Cuba or Iran. Terrorism and Communism aren't built that way.
It's a hard lesson, but one we all have to learn: People don't change. Once a Communist, always a Communist. Once an Islamic terrorist state, dedicated to slaying Infidels, well, you get the idea.
But Obama doesn't.
"His Legacy" is always getting in the way. Despite push back from the American people, he was determined to go ahead and end the embargo on Cuba. What he didn't understand was that the Castro brothers don't like him and wouldn't like him no matter what he did.
And there's good reason. During the guerrilla warfare in Cuba, Fidel fought in the jungle, and in the mountainous terrain. He was hungry and determined. He faced men who were men, loyal to their cause.
A man like Obama, who speaks disrespectfully to other leaders about his own country, is not someone likely to be respected by a guerrilla fighter.
Obama didn't get that he was being disrespected when Raul Castro didn't meet him at the airport, and didn't expect Fidel Castro to call "Brother Obama's country, the "Evil Empire."
Even though Obama tried to convince Fidel and Raul that he was one of them, and "not one of those Americans," they weren't buying it.
Even though he welcomed and acknowledged Castro's criticism of the U.S., centering on our problems with "basic needs for people, and poverty and inequality and race relations."
Even though he apologized for the fact that both countries were developed by slaves, that both countries were living in a world "colonized by Europeans," and poetically noted that, "The blue waters beneath Air Force One once carried American battle ships to this island to liberate, but also to exert control over Cuba,"Fidel and Raul weren't buying what he was selling.
So he partied hearty, at the ball game in Cuba, grinning, joining in and doing the wave with the Cuban crowd, giggling like a school boy on holiday. But to no avail.
The Castro brothers still didn't like him. Despite what Obama told students in Argentina, there is a difference between Capitalism and Communism and Socialism, children.
When he arrived in Argentina, Obama again apologized for America, this time for its role in supporting Argentina's former dictatorship.
"Democracies have to have the courage to acknowledge when we don't live up to the ideals that we stand for. And we've been slow to speak out for human rights, and that was the case here."
You'd never even know he was an American president.
All this and his fancy footwork, dancing the tango at a state dinner, didn't go over well with anybody. It might have been because he was tripping the light fantastic a day after an Islamic terrorist attack killed 30 people in Brussels. Who knows?
He could have come home and found out, acting as if he were the president of the United States. But he didn't.
Sometimes you can't win 'em all. With this president, we don't win any.
Hold the line, America.